The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
MINOR MATTERS.

Two Ladies OF National Reputation Dispute
Steep Bill for Flowers.
Washington Special
Freeman, florist Of this city, who furnishes
a large bulk Of the costly flowers used swell
dinners and receptions. has astonished society by
his impudence in bringing suit against two
wealthy ladies of uprertendom for their flower
bills for the fashionable season just closed. The
ladies are Miss Mary G. Caldwell and Miss Lena
Caldwell. The formers bill is $546 30 and the lat
ters $3.50 TO- Both ladies very wealthy in their
own right Miss Mary G.. Caldwell recently
made international reputation by donating
$500, 900 toward the endowment of the great
Catholic university. which is to be built a site
Soldiers Home. The bills include 500 vioets
at So hundred, and Jacqueminot corsage bou-
quets at $13 each. The point in dispute wolves
only a few dollars, the ladies claiming that what
the florist renders two orders should have
been one. and at the price agreed to for
The millionaire ladies are so tenacious of their
ground that they refuse to pay at all till the bill
is corrected, and are willing to go to the courts
for settlement
Late vice-President Wheeler's Married Life.
Washington Special.
The wife of William A. Wheeler died at his
Washington boarding house. Mrs. Rhines's on
Twelfth street, early in 1876. She was a tall,
fne-looking woman, without the appearance of
invalidism. but reality a sufferer for many
years from the Entertainments of the disease
which ended her life. She was Mary King a
ten-year-old pupil in the first school taught by
Mr.. Wheeler, and when she became nineteen
they were married, They were a childless pair
but the devotion between them was quite be-
yond the ordinary She obtained his promise
newer to marry again should he survive her. and,
though he was once engaged during his widow
hood, the old constancy at last triumphed and
the engagement was quietly dissolved. This
was regretted by many of his best friends, for he
particularly domestic man, and it
grim fate to him to sit alone at his table and
freside.
.'Do you think my husband a stern looking
manl' Mrs. Wheeler once inquired of fellow
boarder just before her last illness. mo. not
stern, only grave" was the reply. ~ suppose
hardly judge how he appears to others. said
Mrs Wheeler, but in the thirty years of our
married life his face has never once been turned
toward me but with a smile"
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler attended the New York
avenue Presbyterian Church. joining in the
melody with clear. sweet voices. He was always
of the first congressman to arrive for tho
opening of the session, and his greetings those
who came later are among the things pleasantly
remembered. Mrs Wheeler used to accompany
him and remain till the close of the session.
however protracted. After her death he left his
seat in Congress. and was still at home when the
convention nominated him for Vice president.
In this he apparently took little interest. and
made reply to the kilograms of congratula-
household, though it embraced such mon as
General Logan. Senator Angus Cameron. Sena-
tor Farwell and Ex-Governor Carpenter, of Iowa.
When he came back Vice president, he NOR
bdly avoided the house associated with his de-
ceased wife's memory.